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Thursday, March 8, 2012

Is the GOP Becoming a War Party?

Obama goes after the Republican warmongers lusting to go to war with Iran. All this war talk will crush the GOP in a general election.
Denouncing Republican “bluster” about war with Iran, President Obama went on the offensive Tuesday:
“Those who are … beating the drums of war should explain clearly to the American people what they think the costs and benefits would be.”
The president had in mind such remarks as those Newt Gingrich delivered to the Israeli lobby AIPAC that same day: “The red line is now … because the Iranians are deepening their commitment to nuclear weapons” — an assertion the Joint Chiefs and U.S. intelligence agencies say is blatantly false.
They insist: Iran has not made the decision to build a bomb.
Perhaps the president was referring to Mitt Romney’s pledge to that same cheering throng...